savoring it

i just checked my messages and had gotten one from my mother.

it gave me great joy.

this morning she had asked me to cook some motherland food because she's getting tired of hospital cafeteria cuisine and take out. this wouldn't normally be such a daunting challenge, but my mother is sort of a food snob because she, my grandmother and my aunts are all fantabulous chefs.

so i sucked it up and did my best. one item was pretty easy, but also pretty easy to mess up, which i thought i had. the other item was much more tricky and i haven't made it in a long time. i crossed my fingers and handed it over to her, but she didn't taste it till i had already left.

in her message, she ACTUALLY used the words, 'flying colors.'

oh! my! God!

to date, the best compliment i had gotten from her was, 'okay. your family won't starve.'

thank goodness she's been eating crap for two weeks. it probably made my stuff look even better.